Tunneler, that Portal-inspired ROBLOX game I wrote about last week, is playable: Click here to start tunneling.
Since launching last Friday, it's already been played/visited nearly 350,000 times. Even more notable, it's also attracted many "Let's Play"-type gameplay videos which also have large viewer totals -- this one above is approaching 200,000 views. But this is actually still on the medium end in terms of ROBLOX, where the top user-made games are played more than the top big budget AAA games on Steam.
While Tunneler is an open tribute to Valve's Portal games, it does demonstrate how indie game developers working on ROBLOX can create a high quality game/demo, and start generating a fanbase they can build on. As creator Homemade Meal put it to me:
“Roblox has the potential to create amazing games, however not enough people are putting the time and effort into trying because of the negative connotations about Roblox developers,” Mr. Meal tells me. “[It] never will until more experienced developers give it a chance.”
Read the rest here, which many more technical details on how he created it.
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